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Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Sondre Bjellås is currently working as Senior Solutions Architect at Steria in Norway. With 13 years of experience with application development on Web and Windows, he is now focusing attention towards Cloud Computing. Currently writing a comprehensive book on Cloud Computing, what it is, what it means for businesses and how to utilize the potential behind it. Sondre is skilled with Microsoft products, technologies and services. Sondre has in-depth knowledge and experience with Visual Studio Team System and Application Life-Cycle Management. Worked with Team Foundation Server integration and Continuous Integration for build automation, testing and installation package building. Creator of Shared Source project Automaton, CI Engine for TFS. Worked on private projects using XNA Game Studio Express, Microsoft Robotics Studio and Windows Azure. Has a hobby of video recording and editing, which fits well with his hobby into motorsports and drifting.

Silverlight

How to Simplify Text Resources in Silverlight

Sondre Bjellas writes "...simplify the way you work with resources in Silverlight 4. The normal procedure to bind against resources is writing an binding statement in the .Content or .Text property of your elements. I will explain how you can use a dependency property to extend your Silverlight controls with an Resource.Key (ResourceKey) property and one for Resource.Tooltip..." Read post »

TechTalk

What is Inside the Microsoft.Data Namespace?

Sondre Bjellas writes "...Here is my analysis of the recently “released” (embedded) Microsoft.Data.dll assembly, the namespace and the types it includes. It’s been the topic of a lot of heated debate recently, with viewpoints I’m unable to relate to and understand just from reading, so I needed to understand. The debate is stemming from..." Read post »

TechTalk

Unity as IoC Container for Caliburn.Micro

Sondre Bjellas writes "Caliburn.Micro is smaller, more lightweight and it has a lot of good features that I think are useful when building rich applications for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7...Reducing complexity should always be one of the top priorities when building software...Go ahead and create a new WPF project or open any existing project you might have...This is how my bootstrapper ends up looking..." Read post »
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Sondre Bjellås

Senior Solutions Architect Steria Oslo, Oslo, NO Send email to Sondre Sondre's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Compact Framework, .NET Development, .NET Framework, ASP .NET, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, Pocket PC & Smartphone, Tablet PC, Visual Studio .NET, Windows Server 2003, XML, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 13
Certifications MCAD, MCP, METRO-C, METRO-T
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Sales and Inventory, Human Resources and Payroll, Manufacturing, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Engineering applications